'Double standards': Pak rejects UN report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan strikes

Pakistan denies UN report that documents civilian casualties in Afghanistan, calls it 'baseless'Pakistan’s military has rejected a UN report documenting hundreds of civilian casualties from cross-border fighting with Afghanistan, saying its forces targeted only Pakistani Taliban hideouts and other militant infrastructure and carried out the strikes in self-defence.Pakistan’s military spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry on Friday dismissed the findings as “baseless” and said Pakistani forces had not deliberately targeted civilians during operations against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which Islamabad accuses of carrying out attacks from bases in Afghanistan.Chaudhry said Pakistan’s military had targeted “hideouts and infrastructure” used by the TTP and that those killed in the s